Dow Jones Business News reports: The Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas said Monday that customer payment-card data was accessed after malware was placed on the resort’s payment-card system, becoming the latest hotel to report such a breach. The company said the card-scraping malware identified data including cardholder name, card number, expiration date…
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Religious hacker defaces scores of escort websites in the name of Allah
It looks like @ElSurveillance has been busy again since this site last heard from in December. Catalin Cimpanu has the story on Softpedia, and Jason Murdock picks it up on IBT.
Dark web drug dealer and hacker to pay out £17,000 and carry out 200 hours of unpaid work
Victoria Wheldon reports: A Scots computer hacker who used the ‘dark web’ to sell drugs has been ordered to pay £17,000 in compensation and carry out 200 hours of unpaid work. David Trail set up and administered the Topix2 website, an online black market site which he used to buy and sell drugs including Diazepam…
TalkTalk being sued by hacked customer
TalkTalk hack’s last year received a lot of coverage on this blog already, but here’s an update. Stephen Hayward reports that a customer who lost £257 to a scammer is suing for compensation. Michael Robinson, 32, has filed suit against the firm, claiming that in addition to becoming a victim of a scam as a result of the breach, crooks also got hold…
Is LookBook aware?
Well, I wanted to send an inquiry to LookBook to ask them if they were aware of being hacked or a report that their user database was up for sale, but there was no contact method on their web site, and the domain lookup didn’t help, either. So I resorted to tweeting to them, and hope…
Verticalscope sounds serious about password security
I’ve previously posted info on the Verticalscope breach affecting 45 million. But I never posted their breach announcement. As I was just reviewing it, I noticed their response to the breach with respect to new password requirements. I thought it was a bit different, and should be mentioned here. From the What We Are Doing…